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Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social · 7h

I wish we had a tenth of the spirit of the French when it comes to things like this. We just passively accept degraded services year on year.

LIVE Protesters start fires and clash with police as school demonstrations spread across France

Students, parents, and unions are protesting at what they say is under-investment in education - with hundreds of schools closed either fully or partially.

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Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

He literally set off a bomb in a UK street. If this had been the IRA Pierce would calling for them to be hung, drawn and quartered. This is domestic terrorism pure and simple. A bomb set off to terrorise with the aim of getting a government to change its policy. Literally a textbook definition.

Andrew Pierce

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A retired engineer who destroyed @SadiqKhan ULEZ camera jailed for 15 years. A ridiculous sentence. No wonder our orisons are overcrowded

Readers added context they thought people might want to know

Kevin Rees was sentenced to 15 years for causing an explosion likely to endanger life after using a homemade bomb to destroy a ULEZ camera in a Sidcup residential street, damaging cars and property up to 100m away with shrapnel near a child's bedroom.

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/...

news.met.police.uk/news/man-jaile...

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Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A Sunday break from politics on Political Sandbox: It's Not You, It's Wordle I went Wordle dark for three years. When I came back it felt meaner, so I went and got the data. It's not you. The easy words are running out. politicalsandbox.substack.com/p/its…

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Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

New from me on Political Sandbox: The Bit Nobody Noticed Triple lock: 615 articles. The EU: 186. Changing how we elect every government from now on: 61. The commentariat missed the seismic bit of Burnham's speech. politicalsandbox.substack.com/p/the…

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Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Remember when Joe Biden invented time travel?

Donald J. Trump

@realDonald Trump

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THE BIDEN FBI PLACED 274 AGENTS INTO THE CROWD ON JANUARY 6. If this is so, which it is, a lot of very good people will be owed big apologies. What a SCAM - DO SOMETHING!!! President DJT

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Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Listening to Suella in this #bbcqt clip she should just go the whole hog and insist on issuing Aryan Certificates for everyone. Here's a cut-out-and-keep example for her. (Read Alt Text for handy English translation but only if you're English so not Suella obvs) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryan_c...

An Adolf Hitler issued Aryan Certificate. The translated text on it says:

Ancestry Chart

for proof of Aryan ancestry for 5 generations

Donald Thomst-Heide Family History

Re: Proof of Aryan Descent

For officials, political friars, and members of the Ulm Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Aryan certificate is required by decree A 300 of September 23, 1934, up to and including January 1, 1800, for former SA men, labor service members, and the like, up to the end of their tenure, as well as for their spouses.

By order of the Ministry of Civil Affairs

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Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yes. That piece was just stating the argument Burnham should use to sell it to his own party. It's not an argument I would use. Here is my conclusion from the piece.

What the commission should take from this

The tempting thing, for a Labour government with a Reform problem, would be to design a system around the opponent. Pick the district sizes, fiddle the thresholds, and hope. It would backfire at today's numbers, it would look like exactly the kind of stitch-up that feeds the people it was meant to stop, and most importantly it would be wrong in principle.

I think the right answer is to build a system that's fair to everyone, including the people I'd most like to see lose, and let the voters do the rest. They've shown in by-election after by-election that they know how to stop a party they don't want. Under PR they'd still be able to.

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Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

New from me on Political Sandbox: The Category Error Trump isn't a politician with a philosophy. He says whatever serves him in the next ten seconds. Once you see that, everything makes more sense. politicalsandbox.substack.com/p/the…

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Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

New from me on Political Sandbox: The Insurance Policy Under first past the post, Reform on 20% gets 49 seats. On 30% it gets a majority. Under PR it never gets near one. That's the insurance policy. politicalsandbox.substack.com/p/the…

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Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

New from me on Political Sandbox: He's Been Here Before Death tax. Dementia tax. Every leader who has told us how to pay for social care has been buried by it. Burnham knows. One of them was him. politicalsandbox.substack.com/p/hes…

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Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

New from me on Political Sandbox: The Cult Are Not The Country Every time Farage or Trump is caught out, the cameras find the true believers and tell us nobody minds. We do. We're just never asked. politicalsandbox.substack.com/p/the…

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Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

New from me on Political Sandbox: 2029 Is Likely To Be The Last Election Held Under FPTP For the first time in my life, the most likely outcome is that the next election is the last held under First Past the Post. politicalsandbox.substack.com/p/202…

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Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Continuing this rewatch of A Touch of Cloth. S2E1 has a bit in it that's genius. This is his motivational spiel in the ops room at the start. It turns into a Dr Seussesque thing. The scansion, the rhyming, the rhythm, the relevance to the story. It's just perfect.

"I want to find out who he knows, where he goes, what he does, in which size gloves What he eats, how he sleeps Under blankets? Under sheets? Is he single? Is he taken? How crispy does he like his bacon? Upper, middle, working class? Which hand's employed to wipe his arse? What's his blood group? What's his sign? What's his take on Palestine? Who's his mother, who's his dad? Has he read Beevor's Stalingrad? What's his height, what's his weight? How often does he masturbate? Is he churlish, shy or chatty? Who is the real Mike Macratty? Solve these riddles if you can and together we can stop this man."

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Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

New from me on Political Sandbox: Making Plans For Nigel Reform councillors answer to head office, not their wards. The members can't remove the leader. That isn't a coincidence, it's the constitution. politicalsandbox.substack.com/p/mak…

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Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

New from me on Political Sandbox: The People Who Aren't in the Room Handing planning to the nearest town doesn't protect democracy. It just hands the decision to whichever slice of the electorate lives closest to it. politicalsandbox.substack.com/p/the…

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Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

New from me on Political Sandbox: Not Flash, Just Gordon Labour and the Tories don't pick their next leader. They pick the last one's opposite. Six handovers, sixty years, and it explains Burnham better than Burnham himself does. politicalsandbox.substack.com/p/not…

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Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Trying to portray yourself as against "the forces of the establishment when you've just been given £38m by billionaires is a brave flex

Richard Tice MP

@TiceRichard

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All those journos who were licking their lips, thinking they had finished Reform off, are duly put back in their box this weekend

Thanks to the generosity of Ben Delo and others, we are building a major financial war chest

We fight to win

The left will bleat and whine. Forces of the establishment will continue to try everything including breaking the law against us

We must ensure they lose

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Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I'm delighted the Republicans are introducing a policy of Universal Basic Income. Good socialist instincts from the lads.

Trump says every adult American will get $5,000 if Republicans win midterms

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Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

New from me on Political Sandbox: Black Shirts On the Street A hall full of people beating a protester while their leadership laughs it off. A pattern needs permission, and permission is exactly what Farage gave it on Friday. politicalsandbox.substack.com/p/bla…

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Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

New from me on Political Sandbox: People Don't Always Know What They Want Two failed sitcom series, an unplanned repeat, and a man pulling a TV Times from under a desk. All three needed a broadcaster willing to fail. politicalsandbox.substack.com/p/peo…

A noir illustration of a large, dust-covered television set standing alone on a vast, featureless plain under a dark, clouded sky. A single orange cable trails from it across the empty ground. High above, a handful of small, identical devices float apart from each other, unconnected to anything.

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Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

No arrests made. I'm not surprised. After all... Some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses.

Disruption at Port of Dover as masked 'stop the boats' protesters block roads

The government says it condemns "the behaviour in Dover" and the hours-long disruption it caused.

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Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

That's exactly what the country needs. A Prime Minister who can't be bothered to listen to what people are saying to him when it involves a potential crime. Has he heard himself?

Nigel Farage tells BBC he 'wasn't listening' during oreign donor talks filmed undercover

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Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Literally just learned this now at Bristol's MShed museum. This must be what the nursery rhyme Pop Goes the Weasel is about.

'We had 500 to 600 customers on a Monday... and it was always the women who came. They brought in their husbands' suits, shoes and wedding rings and on that they raised enough money to see them through the week.'

Jesse White, a worker at John Swaish's pawnbroker's shop in the 1900s

The pawnbroker

The number of pawnshops in Bristol has varied across time, responding to social need. A hundred years ago people could 'pop the weasel' (pawn their weasel and stoat/coat) in over 50 pawnshops. They got a cash loan on their belongings, and could buy them back (with interest) on payday. It was a form of credit open to all, and a vital service in times of unemployment and recession with no Social Security. By the 1960s most had closed down but the number is rising again.

Raselle's pawnbroker's shop, Stapleton Road, 2010

Bristol's oldest pawnbroker opened in Old Market in 1796, and was taken over by Amos Raselle in 1894.

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Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

New from me on Political Sandbox: I Wouldn't Have Fifty Minutes Either Weekend World happened because ITV was regulated. 18 Doughty Street happened because nothing was. Both gave me what television won't anymore. politicalsandbox.substack.com/p/i-w…

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Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Exactly as I predicted Jukes and Orr have been thrown under the bus. The problem Farage has is that everyone who watches the film that caused Reform to abandon them will also see Farage himself clearly accepting foreign money. If Jukes and Orr have to go why can Farage stay? That makes no sense.

Reform UK says two senior officials have stepped down as the party launched an investigation into claims about funding aired during a Channel 4 News report.

Nigel Farage's senior aide Dan Jukes and Reform's head of policy James Orr have both stood down pending the outcome of the internal probe, the party said.

A Reform UK spokesman said: "The party believes it is important that the investigation is allowed to proceed independently and without prejudice.

"No further comment will be made while the investigation is ongoing."

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Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Two hours after this Channel 4 News story on Reform and the foreign donations dropped. Social media is all over it. Other party leaders are calling for the police to investigate. And what's going on over on the BBC News website? Tumbleweeds.

BBC News website that does not mention the Reform story at all

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Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

New from me on Political Sandbox: What Was All That For? Britain deposed a Prime Minister and reshuffled half the government as a result. With all the upheaval that that brings we need to have had a good reason. Continuity is not it. politicalsandbox.substack.com/p/wha…

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Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

New from me on Political Sandbox: I Could Have Watched Scooby-Doo Part one of three on what happened to the long political interview. It starts with an eight year old in 1982 not getting up to change the channel. politicalsandbox.substack.com/p/i-c…

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Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

New from me on Political Sandbox: The Law I Asked For In 2009 I watched my MP lose his career in an extraordinary public meeting in Bracknell. I wrote a post demanding a recall law. We got one in 2015. It couldn't have touched him. politicalsandbox.substack.com/p/the…

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Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

New from me on Political Sandbox: The Motion What I Wrote I argued in 2013 that this power would spread. Thirteen years of the government's own reports say it has, and the safeguard has never been used once. politicalsandbox.substack.com/p/the…

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Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

This is clearly the UK political equivalent of this

A load of made up plausible sounding to a non westerner but ridiculous to a westerner names from the Fighting Baseball game on the SNES 1995

SLEVE MCDICHAEL

ONSON SWEEMEY

DARRYL ARCHIDELD

ANATOLI SMORIN

REY MCSRIFF

GLENALLEN MIXON

MARIO MCRLWAIN

RAUL CHAMGERLAIN

KEVIN NOGILNY

TONY SMEHRIK

BOBSON DUGNUTT

WILLIE DUSTICE

JEROMY GRIDE

SCOTT DOURQUE

SHOWN FURCOTTE

DEAN WESREY

MIKE TRUK

DWIGT RORTUGAL

TIM SANDAELE

KARL DANDLETON

MIKE SERNANDEZ

TODD BONZALEZ

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Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I absolutely love this that someone just posted on linkedin clearly created by AI without even rudimentary checking. Surrey appears to be trying to escape to France. Staffordshire and Oxfordshire have annexed Wales. And Labour are very strong in the county of "Monthiste". Which has never existed.

AI generated map of the UK with hallucinations up the wazoo

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Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

New from me on Political Sandbox: At Least It's Going to Be Cool on Friday Michael Fish, 1985, and 26 degrees is picked out in red. Last week I saw 26 forecast and called it cool. HT @neilsmiles.com politicalsandbox.substack.com/p/at-…

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Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Great from @chrisdillow.bsky.social today. Absolutely on fire regarding how politicians are so craven to a deeply unrepresentative media. I particularly like the "a few billionaires' gimps writing for a handful of cranks" framing. Spot on. chrisdillow.substack.com/p/the-politi...

It also requires them to recognise that the mass media is not only the enemy of decency and rationality but also a terrible guide to reality and public opinion, because it no longer aims at a mass market but is instead a few billionaires' gimps writing for a handful of cranks. Kowtowing to the press is turning back time to when it mattered. What we need instead today

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Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

New from me on Political Sandbox: (In almost 20 years of political writing I have never been prouder of a headline than this one) Nobody Puts Davey In A Corner politicalsandbox.substack.com/p/nob…

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Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

New from me on my Political Sandbox Substack: Where Are the Lib Dems? In 2010, 23% of the vote bought them 57 seats. In 2024, 12% bought them 72. They finally cracked the code of first past the post. The prize was silence. politicalsandbox.substack.com/p/whe…

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Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

This is spot on from @iandunt.bsky.social as to the limits of Farage trying to play Trumpian games with the British electorate. We're simply not culturally primed for it in the UK in the way the US has been over many decades.

I don't think this is Farage's fault. He is really very effective as a political communicator. I think the reason he struggles is because Brits are not religion, and therefore lack a pattern of behaviour in which we relinquish our minds to a spiritual leader. The whole muscle-memory of evangelism, from pulpit bashers to TV preachers, means nothing to us. We do not have a pattern of historic racial politics which slots political debates into a pre-existing us-vs-them narrative.

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Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

New from me on my Political Sandbox Substack: The Silent Majority A third of Labour's backbenchers have spoken in the Commons less than once a week since they were elected. Their colleagues who lost speak twice as much. politicalsandbox.substack.com/p/the…

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Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

New from me on my Political Sandbox Substack: Find Me Twenty Quid, Minister I've been asked where the money is coming from on air more times than I can count, and I never knew. Here's the secret. Nobody does. politicalsandbox.substack.com/p/fin…

A man in a suit stoops with an enormous magnifying glass to inspect a single coin on the floor, while an immense wall of banknotes towers unexamined behind him.

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Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

New from me on my Political Sandbox Substack: What’s That in Old Money? A Labour MP compared the British state to the wiring at Westminster. After 35 years in software, I am afraid it is worse than that. politicalsandbox.substack.com/p/wha…

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Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

And exactly as I expected. A few hours on and the story is nowhere on the BBC website. Had Reform won it it would still be the top story.

BBC news website with the result of the Manchester mayoral contest nowhere to be seen

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Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

New from me on my Political Sandbox Substack: Your Paddling Pool Is on the List A water company can fine you £1,000 for watering your child's paddling pool. It has no power to stop a golf course doing the same. politicalsandbox.substack.com/p/you…

A flat illustration split across a hard horizontal line on a hot summer day. Along the top, a manicured sports field in alternating light and dark mown stripes, with a sand bunker and a few tiny distant figures, and arcs of water curving over it from a line of sprinklers beneath a bright orange sun. Below the line the ground turns to dry ochre earth cracked into large plates, scattered with tufts of dead yellow grass and small stones. In the foreground sits a cheap round blue plastic paddling pool, empty and bone dry, with a few dead leaves lying in the bottom of it.

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Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

New from me on my Political Sandbox Substack: We Shape Our Buildings Parliament can move out for 25 years and spend £15.6bn, or stay put for 60 and spend nearly £40bn. It will stay put, and the reason is neither money nor heritage. politicalsandbox.substack.com/p/we-…

Detailed monochrome illustration of a packed Commons-style debating chamber, rows of near-identical besuited men facing each other with more watching from the galleries. The ceiling above them has partly collapsed, with cables and ducting hanging loose into the room. Water stains run down the panelling, scaffolding stands against one wall, and a single red bucket sits on the floor in the middle of the chamber catching a drip. Nobody is looking at any of it.

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Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

New from me on my Political Sandbox Substack: We Shape Our Buildings 6 billion, or stay put for sixty and spend nearly forty. It is going to stay put. The reason is not money, and it is not the heritage either. politicalsandbox.substack.com/p/we-…

Monochrome illustration of a packed Commons-style debating chamber, rows of near-identical besuited men facing each other. The ceiling above them has partly collapsed with cables hanging loose, water stains run down the panelling, and a single red bucket sits on the floor catching a drip. Nobody is looking at any of it.

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Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

New from me on my Political Sandbox Substack: Not in My Lifetime Parliament has decided that inheriting a seat in the legislature is indefensible. But is still convinced that have the same rule for the head of state is just peachy. politicalsandbox.substack.com/p/not-in-my-...

Noir illustration of an empty House of Lords chamber. Ermine robes lie discarded over the benches on both sides and small coronets are scattered across the floor. A single figure in a modern suit stands alone at the centre, facing an empty gilded throne on a raised dais lit by a shaft of light from above.

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Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

New from me on my Political Sandbox Substack: Not in My Lifetime Parliament has decided that inheriting a seat in the legislature is indefensible, and removed the last hereditary peers by 435 votes to 73. politicalsandbox.substack.com/p/not…

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Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

New from me on my Political Sandbox Substack: Proud to Be No Good at It Seventeen years ago I asked why Britain undervalues numeracy. The good news is that our maths has got better. politicalsandbox.substack.com/p/pro…

Illustration in dark greys and orange. A crowd of silhouetted figures stands in the rain outside a classical public building, facing an enormous blank orange billboard that carries no numbers or words at all. In the foreground one figure stands apart at a lit white lectern, looking down at a sheet of paper.

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